Phantasm
Night Of The Living Dead
Halloween
Deathdream
The Thing
Dawn Of The Dead
The Evil Dead
The Creature From The Black Lagoon
Jaws
Piranha
Count Yorga Vampire
An American Werewolf In London
The Howling
The Fog
Let's Scare Jessica To Death
Psycho
Carrie
Creepshow
The Exorcist
Phenomena

These are the films that really made me love the genre. I really miss the glory days of late night horror shows, mom and pop video stores, and theaters being loaded with stuff that would more than likely go direct to video today.